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Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
I had fun re-implementing antirez's "kilo" editor
https://github.com/antirez/kilo
There's a nice tutorial for it
https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Great way to learn more about terminal modes and write some raw C
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2025)
I've been learning systems programming for a while and recently I discovered kilo[0], which inspired me to start building my own editor[1]. Not sure how far I'll go, but hopefully it will be usable -- how fun would it be to build another project of mine using my own editor?
[O] https://github.com/antirez/kilo
[1] https://github.com/bloomca/love
- Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search
- Edit is now open source
- A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search
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A nano like text editor built with pure C
Most of that is probably attributable to being based on Kilo: https://github.com/antirez/kilo (kinda strange they didn't link directly in their readme) - a tiny text editor written by antirez who notably also created Redis. Antirez has a bunch of really interesting side projects if you dig into their github repo.
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Micro – A Modern Alternative to Nano
Yeah, "micro" for an editor would be 11 kilo bytes. I bet it's possible to do a half-decent editor in C in 11KB. Antirez's "kilo" (~1000 lines of C) is 36KB when compiled with standard gcc (https://github.com/antirez/kilo).
That said, for many server-type use cases these days, 11MB isn't a huge deal. Still, I wonder if micro could be compiled on / ported to TinyGo and end up a few hundred KB? It looks like TinyGo can produce some pretty small binaries: https://tinygo.org/docs/guides/optimizing-binaries/
- Ask HN: Does this exist? Courses explaining well written codebases?
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What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
Anyone interested in the machinations of all of this terminal stuff should look at antirez’ kilo, a terminal text editor in under 1000 lines of code: https://github.com/antirez/kilo
There is a nice tutorial that walks through how one might write it from scratch: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
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Vim sucks
kilo 1k of C
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The primary programming language of kilo is C.
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